Internet Connectivity

The internet now links an astonishing 20 percent of the world’s six billion people; in most Western nations at least half the population use the world wide web, according to Internet World Stats.  An explosion in social networking websites and technology means that increasingly, these people have many opportunities to get in touch with each other.

‘Social networking’ describes the plethora of web-based applications like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Digg, boasting large online communities of people with shared interests.  These sites usually allow members to build a profile, in the form of a web page where you display information about yourself, your interests and your activities.